County annual report · FIPS 37159
2016 Rowan County, NC Power Outage Report
In 2016, customers in Rowan County, NC went without power for an average of 16.4 hours, a total of 277K customer-hours (North Carolina average 30.5 hours). That ranks 50th worst of 93 North Carolina counties and 189th of 2,391 nationally.
Compared with NC, the US and 2015
Coverage line is EAGLE-I's share of North Carolina customers tracked each year.
Biggest outages in Rowan County, 2016
The 10 outage episodes with the most customers out at once. Times are UTC.
| # | Started (UTC) | Ended (UTC) | Duration | Peak out | Customer-hours |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | July 5, 2016 13:00 | July 7, 2016 02:00 | 1d 13h | 7,044 | 65K |
| 2 | July 8, 2016 20:15 | July 10, 2016 05:00 | 1d 8h | 4,582 | 20K |
| 3 | June 23, 2016 21:15 | June 24, 2016 23:45 | 1d 2h | 3,229 | 6,321 |
| 4 | February 24, 2016 13:30 | February 26, 2016 20:15 | 2d 6h | 3,192 | 34K |
| 5 | October 4, 2016 15:15 | October 4, 2016 23:15 | 8h | 2,407 | 2,544 |
| 6 | December 20, 2016 22:00 | December 21, 2016 03:15 | 5h 15m | 1,999 | 2,539 |
| 7 | December 19, 2016 23:00 | December 20, 2016 04:30 | 5h 30m | 1,991 | 3,991 |
| 8 | July 23, 2016 13:00 | July 24, 2016 05:45 | 16h 45m | 1,855 | 2,494 |
| 9 | September 26, 2016 09:30 | September 27, 2016 14:00 | 1d 4h | 1,685 | 8,189 |
| 10 | July 22, 2016 19:30 | July 23, 2016 09:30 | 14h | 1,453 | 2,152 |
Outage episodes by size in 2016: 98 reached 100+ customers, 22 reached 1,000+ customers, 0 reached 10,000+ customers.
Utility reliability filed with the EIA
SAIDI (average outage time per customer) and SAIFI (average interruptions per customer) that utilities serving Rowan County reported on EIA Form 861 for 2016, or their most recent earlier filing. Utility-wide figures, not county-specific.
| Utility | EIA year | SAIDI | SAIFI | SAIDI excl. major events | SAIFI excl. major events |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Duke Energy Carolinas, LLC | 2016 | 5.2 hrs | 1.34 | 2.8 hrs | 1.08 |
| EnergyUnited Elec Member Corp | 2016 | 2.5 hrs | 1.15 | 1.7 hrs | 0.96 |
| Union Electric Membership Corp - (NC) | 2016 | 2.0 hrs | 1.06 | 66 min | 0.73 |
| Duke Energy | - | - | - | - | - |
| Town of Landis - (NC) | - | - | - | - | - |
About this data
- Outage figures come from DOE/ORNL EAGLE-I, which records customers out by county every 15 minutes. EAGLE-I tracked about n/a of North Carolina's customers in 2016; utilities it does not see are not counted.
- Hours per customer = outage customer-minutes ÷ 16,951 customers (ORNL modeled county customer count), including major storm days. It is comparable across counties but is not the SAIDI a utility files.
- An outage event is a continuous stretch with customers out; counts at 100, 1,000 and 10,000+ use its peak.
- Years loaded: 2015–2025. Rowan County has data for 2015–2025.
Cite this report
MassOutage (massoutage.com), Rowan County, NC annual power outage report, 2016, data as of Oct 3, 2026 02:41 UTC, sources: DOE EAGLE-I (https://eagle-i.doe.gov/); EAGLE-I modeled customer counts (MCC) (https://figshare.com/); EIA Form 861 (utility reliability) (https://www.eia.gov/electricity/data/eia861/). https://massoutage.com/reports/2016/north-carolina/rowan-county